What Am I Tumbling Today? 02/06/24

in this video I open up one of my rock tumblers that is done with the pre-polish stage and have a look at the rocks inside to see if they are ready to start the final polish. How did the petrified wood, banded iron, agate and jasper doing? Watch and see... Spoilers, they're Amazing! #thefinders #lapidary
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[@goldensadventures1229]

Thanks Mike you are doing some beautiful work

[@keithrodman9318]

Those are looking really nice. Will be interesting to see how good they look after the polish cycle.

[@rockman531]

Hi Mike, Very nice batch of rocks! That one piece is not bumblebee jasper - it looks like AZ. rainbow wood. Bumblebee is mostly yellow & black and comes from Indonesia. Glad you removed some of that water for polishing. I was talking to the computer screen - Mike...too much water! hehe. I suggestion - run it a little longer than 2 weeks. Great video, Mike!! Thanks for the agate chip mention. Thumbs up! Stay safe. Jim

[@MikesLapidaryFossils]

Thanks for the clarification. I've had people ask if some of the stuff I was polishing was bumblebee jasper? I wasn't sure, but none of it came from Indonesia.

[@MrChubbyHubby.]

First! Woot!! Woot!!!

[@richardhulbert9480]

So much of what you say just reminds me of my wife. Such as "agitation, nooks cranny and cracks" Are a fairly apt description as well. But mostly every time you say agitate I look up thinking she is standing there. Your other channel you use the phrase tickling the dragons tail. I won't tell you what that makes me think of. Gotta keep it clean ya know.

[@MikesLapidaryFossils]

Is your wife from the Midwest too?

[@richardhulbert9480]

Not sure every time I talk to her I get in trouble. I start every day saying I am sorry for whatever I may say or do that's wrong today.

[@MikesLapidaryFossils]

Sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield act.

[@richardhulbert9480]

Loved some Rodney. Someone said that you can take a girl out of the trailer but you can't take the trailer out of the girl. Every time I get really mad I threaten to take her back to the trailer park she came from. That straitened her out